Leymah Gbowee is a woman, a Liberian, who has stared down the barrel of a smoking gun and had the guts to demand her rights as a human being.
The countdown to the Gambia's 2016 general elections has begun with a rare move to bring together female politicians from across the divided political spectrum to ensure increased female representation.
Dressed in a white dress with black polka dots and pink and red carnations, white knee-high socks and matching patent shoes, Babirye recently celebrated her second birthday.
A Study in Zanzibar has proved that accessing legal remedy becomes difficult to many victims of gender violence from poor families.
Thousands of women in Mashonaland West's Chinhoyi town have been left with the difficult choice of declining sex or simply risk unwanted pregnancies, amid reports of shortages on contraceptive pills during weekends.
Safina Kombo (75) is a woman who lives in Butiama District, Mara Region. This old lady fears for her life, because brutal killings of women in her area have become rampant to the point of forcing older women to seek refuge in safer areas.
Source: Daily Trust
Abuja natives under the aegis of Original Inhabitants Development Association of Abuja (OIDA) have faulted the Minster of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, over what they described as undemocratic behaviour and practices following his recent warning to traditional rulers against unlawful protest in the territory.
Source: Front Page Africa
Monrovia — The fight against drugs in Liberia is taking a more serious trend with the indictment of a Ugandan woman for drug trafficking.
Source: East African Business Week
Hoima — When labour pains strike, Violet Kobusingye has to endure a bumpy painful 30 kilometre ride from her village Mbaraara to Hoima Referral Hospital in Hoima town to get better medical pre and post natal care.
Source: East African Business Week
Kigali — Many Rwandan women are developing through the training acquired through Women for Women (WOW) International Organization which started operating in the country in 1997.
Source: Leadership
The British Department for International Development (DFID), is to sponsor 350 female students from Zamfara to study various courses at the state College of Education in Maru.
Source: FOROYAA Newspaper
An Action Aid-EC Funded project for promoting women's access to socio-economic rights and economic empowerment in Niamina West, Niamina East and Niamina Dankunku in the Central River Region has been launched on Wednesday, 2nd April, ,2014 at Jareng Village.
Source: Vanguard
NKECHI was full of life and in high spirits. She was nine months pregnant and was already feeling the contractions of labour at well-spaced intervals. She had no expectation of problems and was hopeful of a normal delivery.
Source: The New Dawn (Monrovia)
The Ministry of Gender and Development has hosted a one day workshop for journalists all across the country, rallying support of the media in the fight against Sexual Gender Based Violence or SGBV.
Source: Guardian
New York commission will seek to build on 1994 action plan and incorporate its key principles into future development targets. Progress towards 20-year-old targets that sought to put women's sexual and reproductive health and rights at the centre of development policy will be assessed at a UN meeting in New York this week.
Source: Daily Observer
The governor of the Central River Region (CRR), Alhaji Ganyie Touray on Wednesday launched a 19-million dalasi project, dubbed Promoting Women's Socio-Economic Rights in Jareng village, Niamina East District.
The project beneficiaries are Niamina East, Niamina West and Niamina Dankunku, targeting 122 smallholder women's farmer groups, who are actively engaged in the Agriculture sector. The European Union is funding the 75% of the three-year project, while Action Aid International the Gambia will fund the remaining 25%. The National Women Farmers Association (NaWFA) will jointly implement it with the Female Lawyers Association of The Gambia.
Source: ANGOP
The chairwoman of the African Union (AU) Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, last Friday in Brussels, Belgium, highlighted the fact that the African continent has been recording high levels of female emancipation, which even supersedes continents that are considered to have a longer experience in terms of gender equity.
Speaking at a press conference, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said that Africa even supersedes Europe, for the fact that the former has 60 per cent of female MPs and others occupy leadership posts, as a demonstration of the rise in gender equity.
Source: Vanguard
Medical experts have raised alarm over increasing cases of a hazardous health condition known as Endometriosis in women which causes unbearable pain during the menstrual cycle of women but is wrongly diagnosed by most doctors.
The condition which affects one in 10 women, unfortunately, is mistaken for other forms of infection or fibroids, hence making treatment options very difficult and painful for the patient.
Source: Health-E
Nonhlanhla Matsunyane was in Grade 11 when a man 20 years older than her followed her to school one day.
Within months, the man was providing her struggling family with groceries and money – and she was providing him with sex even though he refused to use condoms.
"I was afraid of getting pregnant but, because he was doing everything, I felt like I owe him. I need to pay him with something," Nonhlanhla told Health-e.
And pay she did. Not only did the married man impregnate her, but he also infected her with HIV.
Source: The sunday independent
The ANC Women's League finally responded to allegations of the sexist remarks supposedly made by the ANC Youth League and the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) about the Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela. The two groups apparently made disparaging comments about Madonsela's looks, describing her as "that woman with the big, ugly nose".
The Youth League and Cosas vented their fury towards the public protector following her report on security upgrades on President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla home.